Recipe #1 - Lemon Yoghurt Cake

This is post #1 from the collective pen of Team Simply Catering. In this blog we (all of the staff at Simply Catering) will from time to time post recipes from our cafe, but may also add ramblings about anything that interests us, which currently range from gardening to exercise, local music and events to restaurants.



Recipe #1: Lemon/Yoghurt Cake



As this has been requested more than any other, we thought we'd begin here.



1 3/4 c sugar

2 lemons

pinch of salt

2 eggs

1 c oil

1 c plain yoghurt

2 c self raising flour





Grease a ring tin, and line with baking paper on the bottom as well as up the sides and around the centre ring to form a collar, an inch or 2 above the sides of the tin. Preheat oven to 180 degs.



In a food processor, mix the sugar, salt and zest of 2 lemons until well mixed. Add the juice of the 2 lemons, oil, yoghurt and eggs, and again mix well. Add the self-raising flour, and pulse until just mixed through.



Pour into tin (carefully avoiding the centre paper lining), rest a few minutes, and fan-bake at 180 degs for 45 minutes.



Tips: Don't over-mix the final stage (s/r flour) - it won't matter if you can still see specks of flour in the mixture. Don't open the oven until 45 minutes to check - trust me, it'll be fine!